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 And then this early Christmas present landed…
Thanks to blastr and cabletv.com check out the awesomeness of this Dr Who infographic, which – in our honest opinion – may even teach diehard Dr Who fans a thing or two about the good Doctor.
Click on the image to go to this baby in its full and complete glory.
 It’s that time of year again, when credit gets tight and belts get loosened.
From all of us here at coeur de lion publishing, enjoy a safe and happy holiday.
Here’s to the future!
 Here at coeur de lion we’re devout lovers of classic science fiction and fantasy. One reason for this is that we’re old enough to have read some of it (not all of it, thank you very much) first time around. So with the boon of epublishing, we’re delighted to see that Gollancz, one of the biggest publishers of speculative fiction in the world, is making a lot of out of print or hard to find spec fic available to everyone through its SF Gateway ebook project.
Scores of titles are already available and being added to regularly. Authors represented so far include:
Poul Anderson, Gregory Benford, David Bischoff, Michael Bishop, James Blish, Marion Zimmer Bradley, David Brin, John Brunner, Algis Budrys, Pat Cadigan, John W. Campbell, Terry Carr, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Edmund Cooper, Richard Cowper, Samuel R. Delany, Gordon R. Dickson, L. Sprague de Camp , Gordon Eklund, Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert, Philip E. High, Garry Kilworth, Damon Knight, Mercedes Lackey, Gentry Lee, Barry N. Malzberg, Julian May, Andre Norton, Tim Powers, Bob Shaw, Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, John Sladek, Cordwainer Smith, E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith, Norman Spinrad, Theodore Sturgeon, Sheri S. Tepper, E.C. Tubb, Harry Turtledove, Jack Vance, Ian Watson, Ted White, Kate Wilhelm, and Gene Wolfe.
Phew! So get over to SF Gateway and start buying. Isn’t the future wonderful?!
coeur de lion publishing is proud to announce its next publication:
 PYROTECHNICON
Being a TRUE ACCOUNT of Cyrano de Bergerac’s
FURTHER ADVENTURES among the
STATES and EMPIRES of the STARS
by Himself (dec’d)
(Englished from the French by Adam Browne)
Read the press release.
PYROTECHNICON will launch at Conflux 8 in Canberra
on the weekend of 29 / 30 September 2012 (www.conflux.org.au)
 We’re pretty excited that coeur de lion publisher Keith Stevenson has been invited to be a guest of honour at Conflux 8, which will be held in Canberra on the weekend of 29/30 September, 2012. With the theme of ‘on the beach’ and a promise to party like there’s no tomorrow – which could be the case given the world is meant to end in 2012, it should be a great event. Early bird rates are available now. For those into tweeting, you can follow conflux at – @conflux_sfcon.
We also have plans afoot to make a ‘special announcement’ about coeur de lion and Conflux 8 very soon.
 Very unexpected news from the maestro Stephen King arrived in our inbox today. No, not directly – we’re not THAT well connected…
Dear Constant Readers,
At some point, while worrying over the copyedited manuscript of the next book (11/22/63, out November 8th), I started thinking—and dreaming—about Mid-World again. The major story of Roland and his ka-tet was told, but I realized there was at least one hole in the narrative progression: what happened to Roland, Jake, Eddie, Susannah, and Oy between the time they leave the Emerald City (the end of Wizard and Glass) and the time we pick them up again, on the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis (the beginning of Wolves of the Calla)?
There was a storm, I decided. One of sudden and vicious intensity. The kind to which billy-bumblers like Oy are particularly susceptible. Little by little, a story began to take shape. I saw a line of riders, one of them Roland’s old mate, Jamie DeCurry, emerging from clouds of alkali dust thrown by a high wind. I saw a severed head on a fencepost. I saw a swamp full of dangers and terrors. I saw just enough to want to see the rest. Long story short, I went back to visit an-tet with my friends for awhile. The result is a novel called The Wind Through the Keyhole. It’s finished, and I expect it will be published next year.
It won’t tell you much that’s new about Roland and his friends, but there’s a lot none of us knew about Mid-World, both past and present. The novel is shorter than DT 2-7, but quite a bit longer than the first volume—call this one DT-4.5. It’s not going to change anybody’s life, but God, I had fun.
– Steve King
Well, you know we love the Dark Tower. So we’re on board for Volume 4.5. And since the mooted tv series and movies appear to be in development hell, no doubt this new installment will be on the bookshelves well before the other version is on our screens.
Anywhere but Earth was blasted well into orbit yesterday at the Speculative Fiction Writers’ Festival at NSW Writers’ Centre. AbE authors Richard Harland, Alan Baxter and Margo Lanagan wowed the crowds with extracts from their stories, before some serious book buying. Thanks to curator Kate Forsyth and all the cool Centre staff.
Thanks to Greenspace for the pics.
 Keith Stevenson, Richard Harland, Alan Baxter and Margo Lanagan
 As you see from our happy snap, the physical version of Anywhere but Earth has finally landed and is available for purchase anywhere on Earth. Just toddle over to our online store to get your order in. The ebook will be available very, very soon. Watch this space. And don’t forget the official launch at 1.15pm on Saturday 5th November at the NSW writers centre in Rozelle, Sydney.
Blast off!
 It feels like it’s been a lo-o-o-ng time coming, mainly because it has, but all the grunt work has now been done, the book is at the printers (Australian and UK), the ebook is in beta testing, and we have our official launch extravaganza set for 5th November – what better time to set off a few rockets?!
Anywhere but Earth will officially launch at the NSW Writers Centre Speculative Fiction Writers’ Festival in Rozelle, Sydney. The festival day is a full-on mini convention featuring authors and editors talking about spec fic writing, publishing, reading and everything in between and curated by multi award-winning fantasy author Kate Forsyth.
Sandwiched in between the panels at the convenient luncheon time of 1pm, AbE will officially launch with extract readings by Margo Lanagan, Richard Harland and Alan Baxter, and a pile of very thick books (AbE weighs in at 730 pages) at a special festival launch price.
For those of you who can’t attend the launch, AbE will be for sale as a pbook for the very reasonable price of AU $34.95 (including postage in Australia) via our website. An ebook version will also be available via Amazon and Smashwords at the niftily attractive price point of US$9.99.
Can’t wait!
 Editing and publishing a book is kind of like climbing a mountain: one step at a time and keep your eyes on the summit. Well that peak is so close we can almost touch it. And the view is particularly lovely.
Click through on the cover thumbnail to see the Anywhere but Earth cover in its full wraparound glory, and featuring a particularly delicious recommendation from award-winning author and hopeless space junkie Trent Jamieson.
This baby is off to the printers for the Australian edition and, assuming the proofs check out, we’ll be setting up the US edition for print on demand goodness via Lightning Source – which means it will be available through most of your big online US outlets. And don’t forget the ebook will be available for the launch too, in glorious epub and mobi for Kindle versions.
Speaking of the launch, the good people at the NSW Writers Centre have invited us to launch all 728 pages of Anywhere but Earth at the end of their Speculative Ficition Writers’ Festival on November 5th – which for all you Guy Fawkes fans is a great day to send a rocket up. Many of the Anywhere but Earth authors will be there and we’ll be doing some panels about the joys of editing and publishing books and magazines and discussing what’s hot in SF. More information on the festival can be found on the NSW Writers Centre website.
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